Monday, August 09, 2004

The Death of Gawker

A 24-year-old named Jessica Coen was named the Editor of Gawker.com, the inside New York media/gossip site beloved by so many. She has no writing experience. The personal blog she's written until now has been a joke. And she didn't even move to New York City until two weeks ago.

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So let me get this straight: you took the time to make this 'blog and link to a bunch of other sites (most of whom would surely not wish to be associated with you) just to bash someone who hasn't even started her new job yet? Don't you think Denton and Choire know what they're doing? They did an exhaustive search and are paying her a salary. A lot of people (including you) would kill to edit Gawker. But they didn't choose you. They chose Jessica. For a reason. Get over it and get a fucking life.

gawkerisdead.blogspot.com ... seriously? first of all the blueprint is a great site, a personal site, that jess has been doing and obviously a lot of people saw her talent for writing on that site. no, she has not been a new yorker her entire life but who that's edited gawker before her has?secondly, why don't you see what she has to offer gawker before you create an entire website about the death of it?also, i agree with lindsay, get a life.

I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to my blogworld brethren for setting up this anonymous blogger account, gawkerisdead, solely to attack and criticize the new editrix.

I was angry. And furious. And irate. And I said to myself, what better way to express that anger than by setting up this complex anonymous system for internet-yelling?

And then I posted a brief, concise tirade against the new Gawker. I was just so mad! You have to understand, right? Sometimes you get mad, too! I know you do! You get madmadmad! That's three mads in one, that's how mad you get.

Now, not only am I post-mad, but sorry, too, for the damage this has inflicted upon my former peers. I can only hang my head in shame over this whole affair. Forgive me, for I am virtuous regardless of my initial instinct to be all anonymous and shit.

Just as I suspected, this is all about Lockhart Steele. He ruins EVERYTHING. I call bullshit on his white glove testing and the mockery he has made of our beloved blogosphere. J-P, kick his assassass!! (Dude, that's a ridiculous amount of ass.)

But to whoever set this site up, I have to say it's a great forum and long overdue. I've been waiting to speak out of turn! Let's begin: curbedisdead.

Pictures of the Olsens and "BREAKING" stories? Man, talk about your sell-outs. That shit is puh-layed. Curbed won't fully see its potential until an Iowan farmboy is plucked from tending cattle and thrown into the wide expanses of open houses in Tribeca to give us full reports on the scene. C'mon Lock, doitdoitdoit! (That means I'm serious.)

Well, I have it on relatively good authority that the new Gawker is not a transvestite but does possess "ambiguous genitalia" which, through various affirmative action referendums, allowed her to get the job over a couple of 50-year old, New York City-raised Teamsters who have these really cool, snarky gossip blogs. Oh, wait, that's right: I meant Teamsters who have really cool, sturdy tool belts.

I heard that Denton found her by reading her angry, anonymous comments on other blogs. He was like, "Wow, that is one talented , secretive, spiteful indidual!" He got Scotland Yard to track her down based on word usage and grammar and when he found her, he hired her on the spot! I also hear they're engaged... to wed!

i once saw her in person, but that was when we both lived in LA and i worked as a set-dresser for david lynch's mulholland drive. for what it's worth, jessica coen played the decrepit troll who hid behind the dumpster at the diner and served as the impetus for the film's acid-trippy events.

and the character you saw in the film was how she looked AFTER we applied copious amounts of makeup to try to make her look less hideous.

fuckin' beast, man, but then again, i look like ray liotta, so who am i to say.

Leave Jessica alone. I for one am looking forward to her insightful postings regarding shoes, having gay male acquaintances, trying to make it in the big crazy city with a little help from daddy, and general navel-gazing.

Well, for those of us that actually knew her before she became a conversation piece online... Well... Sorry to Gawker and everyone else that reads her drivel. I'm glad she's no longer residing here in Royal Oak, MI anymore. Keep her in NY with the rest of the nutty windbags.Cheers.

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